21,000 hours above land and sea
Robert “Bob” Gartshore was born in Calgary in 1931, earned his pilot’s licence in 1949 and joined the Royal Canadian… FULL STORY
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Rough rides
Kootenay-born-and-raised Luanne Armstrong is an organic farmer on a fourth-generation family farm in the small community of Boswell, B.C. With… FULL STORY
Edison & the Elephant
One of the benefits of book awards, beyond serving as a good excuse for writers and supportive book folks to… FULL STORY
Victoria Prizes shortlist announced
One of the benefits of book awards, beyond serving as a good excuse for writers and supportive book folks to… FULL STORY
Griffin’s Wood
The Griffin in the Griffin’s Wood (Ekstasis $29.95), a spy novel in the tradition of John Le Carre’s The Russia… FULL STORY
From Latvia, with love and yoga
Marion “Mugs” McConnell of Scotch Creek in the Okanagan was first introduced to yoga as a teenager in 1973 and… FULL STORY
Thien on Booker shortlist
Born in Vancouver, Madeleine Thien, the daughter of Malaysian-Chinese immigrants, was taught to read at age three by her older… FULL STORY
Shout, shout, let it all out
We asked current Room editor Chelene Knight to reflect on how the publication has affected her life as a writer…. FULL STORY
Paint the peninsula Black
The Sidney and Peninsula Literary Festival and Tanner’s Books will be hosting a fall series of reading events at the Shoal… FULL STORY
Giller gleam for Salt Spring’s Page
Kathy Page’s The Story of My Face was longlisted for the Orange Prize in 2002. Alphabet was a Governor General’s… FULL STORY
From Southlands to Halifax
Based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Marjorie Simmins is a bi-coastal freelancer whose first memoir Coastal Lives (Nimbus 2014) was a… FULL STORY
#187 Raymond Hull
LOCATION: Former site of central branch of Vancouver Public Library, Burrard Street at the corner of Robson. One of the… FULL STORY
#186 George Fetherling
LOCATION: Sylvia Hotel, 1154 Gilford Street, on English Bay near Stanley Park, Vancouver Probably the consistently best-known haunt for literary… FULL STORY
#185 Samuel Bawlf
LOCATION: Sam’s Deli, in the Belmont Building, 805 Government Street, Victoria This deli was founded by Sam Bawlf in 1972,… FULL STORY
#184 Margaret Atwood
LOCATION: 3886 West 11th Avenue, Vancouver. One of Canada’s foremost authors, Margaret Atwood lived here in 1964-1965 while working as… FULL STORY
Poetry In Transit’s 20th anniversary
Who knew poetry plastered on bus ceilings, bus shelters and SkyTrain station walls would be so popular? Yes, commuters are… FULL STORY
From Juilliard to just surviving
Ann Eriksson’s fifth novel The Performance (D&M $22.95) contrasts the worlds of elite classical piano with urban homelessness. Hana Knight,… FULL STORY
#58 The world is full of predators
Hi Darlin’: We might call it the summer which almost wasn’t. July was a wash-out; the first three or so… FULL STORY
Rage against the nonsense
by John Moore By day, Peter Babiak is a mild-mannered Langara professor of English literature. Come sundown, he morphs… FULL STORY
Grant McKenzie at Bolen’s
Grant McKenzie will be launching tenth thriller, The Butcher’s Son, and its prequel, The Fear In Her Eyes, released in… FULL STORY
